Two home invasions in one week in my town, how do you protect your self ?

[Phillip McCleod]

42. ever hear the one about the guy who gets mugged in an alley?

yeh the mugger says, 'your money or your life!'
and the guy says, 'take my life, i'm saving my money for my *old age*'

do what you can to protect yourself, but in home invasions, like muggings and rapes, there's a greater danger to your life itself. you want to survive, and do what you need to do to get through it.

guns, in particular, are a bad, bad idea. i'm sure the stats vary depending on source, but the thing is.. they're a sneaky possibly murderous individual. 'you' the victim are taken by surprise, and possibly you have a moral compunction or two about taking another person's life, even a stranger in your home with malevolent motives. you may hesitate (it's hard to say). they may not.

people are killed by their own guns all the time, when an attacker simply takes it away from them.

then there's this if a gun is around.. maybe 'you' have 'what it takes', but does everyone in your home, and is that risk worth it?